Nicklok

Making fun of a real life child (now 8, 7 when the show was written) and a recently deceased father, grandfather and great grandfather is the lowest of the low. And it's not even well done satire. It's crass "humour" that has clearly been written by a writer who desperately wanted a vehicle for themselves to play the lead since they have never been talented enough to be cast as one by anyone else. Janetti should be ashamed of himself and HBO should be too.

It's just so boring to watch. Reading through the plot is far more interesting than watching this movie. It's an interesting enough idea, but the execution is terrible. The movie is very, very boring. It sounds like it should be better, but it's just not.

This is an interesting film. The writing is solid enough and the acting is fine. The biggest drawback for me was the score. It is overly emotional and often the emotion being displayed on screen by the actors was being overshadowed by the overly emotive score. There were several instances where silence would have been perfect, rather than the single female voice wordlessly singing notes, which was overly used to the point of exhaustion.

The story is interesting. It takes a little while to get going and when it hit's it's stride it is a steady jog rather than a sprint. However, this pacing suits the film as the relationships between the characters needs to be established for the film's premise to truly work.

You can see that this film took inspirations from others. One which immediately sprang to mind was the Saw franchise, although with no traps and much less gore. More a case of being placed in a situation with limited information available to you and having to survive. So I guess in that way it is more like Cube. Overall it is a film which I would recommend, however NOT if you are a pregnant woman!